Which begs the obvious question, why would anyone spend 36 hours trying to sign up for overpriced crappy government health insurance?

Via WaPo:

Carl Bidleman made his first attempt at buying insurance under the health law at midnight on Tuesday, the moment the marketplaces opened. He couldn’t get the site to load and the representative at a call center suggested trying again in the morning.

So he did, at 8 a.m., after walking his dog and brewing a cup of coffee. And again that afternoon. And that evening.

Twenty-one attempts tries and 36 hours later, Bidleman had found the holy grail: Successfully purchasing a health insurance policy.

“I went out right after and got some beer at the store before going back to work,” Bidleman, a 63-year-old video editor in San Francisco. “I had to take a moment and celebrate finally getting this done.”